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Tag: cosmology and astrophysics

New Study Maps Space Dust in 3-D

Image - The dark regions show very dense dust clouds. The red stars tend to be reddened by dust, while the blue stars are in front of the dust clouds. These images are part of a survey of the southern galactic plane. (Credit: Legacy Survey/NOAO, AURA, NSF)

Attention Earthlings: Help Wanted in Finding a New Planet

Image - The public is now invited to participate in the hunt for a hypothetical ninth planet in our solar system, dubbed Planet Nine. This image shows an artist's concept of how Planet Nine may appear—if it exists. (Credit: NASA)

Simulations Show Swirling Rings, Whirlpool-Like Structure in Subatomic ‘Soup’

Image - This hydrodynamic simulation shows the flow patterns, or “vorticity distribution,” from a smoke ring-like swirling fluid around the beam direction of two colliding heavy ions. The simulation provides new insight about the properties of a superhot fluid known as the quark-gluon plasma. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Planetarium Show Brings ‘Phantom’ Matter to Life

Image - A pioneering dark matter discovery by astronomer Vera Rubin, who is shown in this rendering peering through a telescope, is described in a new planetarium show. (Credit: "Phantom of the Universe")

Construction of World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Moves Forward

Photo - A cutaway rendering of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector that will be installed nearly a mile deep near Lead, S.D. The central detector will be filled with 10 metric tons of purified liquid xenon that produces flashes of light and electrical pulses in particle interactions. An array of detectors, known as photomultiplier tubes, are designed to amplify and measure these particle signals. (Credit: Matt Hoff/Berkeley Lab)

Ed Lofgren, Pioneering ‘Rad Lab,’ Berkeley Lab, and Manhattan Project Physicist, dies at 102

Photo - Ed Lofgren at Berkeley Lab in 1966. (Credit: Marilee B. Bailey/Berkeley Lab)

Accelerator Operator Stitches Together Storied Career at Bevatron, Cyclotron

Photo - Reba Siero, an accelerator operator, in the control room of Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron. (Credit: Paul Mueller/Berkeley Lab)

3-D Galaxy-mapping Project Enters Construction Phase

Photos - First petal machined for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). (DESI Collaboration)

Dark Energy Measured with Record-Breaking Map of 1.2 Million Galaxies

Researchers Gear Up Galaxy-seeking Robots for a Test Run

Photo - Parker Fagrelius inspects ProtoDESI, a prototype system for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. ProtoDESI will be tested at the Mayall Telescope in Arizona in August and September. (Paul Mueller/Berkeley Lab)

Radiation 101: DoseNet Delivers Environmental Data as an Educational Tool

Screenshot - A DoseNet interactive map screenshot showing San Francisco-area monitoring locations. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Hunting for Dark Matter’s ‘Hidden Valley’

Photo - Kathryn Zurek (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)